Draft lottery odds: See the most likely outcome for your team

Summary of 11 articles · Updated Apr 15, 2014

The odds of winning the Draft Lottery are determined by the teams' regular-season point totals. The weighted odds of winning the lottery were determined by regular-season point totals. The Panthers, who finished 29th in the league, vaulted ahead of the la… (more)st-place Buffalo Sabres, who had the best odds of winning the lottery held in Toronto on Tuesday night. The Panthers bucked the odds Tuesday by jumping up a spot and earned the right to the top pick in June. The rest of the lottery field: 2. Buffalo Sabres 3. Edmonton Oilers 4. Calgary Flames 5. New York Islanders 6. Vancouver Canucks 7. Carolina Hurricanes 8. Toronto Maple Leafs 9. Winnipeg Jets 10. Anaheim Ducks 11. Nashville Predators 12. Phoenix Coyotes 13. Washington Capitals. Thirteen of the 14 Clubs not qualifying for the Stanley Cup Playoffs – or the Clubs that have acquired the First-Round drafting positions of those non-playoff teams – will have a chance at winning the right to the first overall selection.

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Turnabout is fair play for the Florida Panthers. At last year’s draft lottery, the second-to-last Colorado Avalanche leap-frogged the Panthers to win first overall pick. This year, it was the Panthers who did the leap-frogging. Florida moved up one spot…

Panthers jump Sabres to win NHL draft lottery

Florida Panthers win 2014 NHL Draft lottery, leaping over Buffalo

The Buffalo Sabres had a 25 percent chance of taking the top spot in the 2014 NHL Draft Lottery, which would have been a nice consolation prize after a terrible, imploding season. Alas, they got more sand kicked in their face – Floridian sand. The Flori…